Far Out: Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis, and Hemp

What is the difference?

Indica

Indica plants typically grow short and wide, they are better suited for indoor growing because of their short growth.  Indica tends to have a strong sweet or sour odor to it.  Smoking Indica gives you a strong physical high that makes you sleepy and provides a deep relaxation feeling this bud is perfect for treating anxiety, body pain, headaches, and sleeping disorders.  

Sativa

Sativa plants grow tall and thin and are better for outdoor growing because some strains can get up to 25 ft tall, sativa has a more grassy type odor its high is known to be more energetic and uplifting and is better for daytime smoking.  A sativa high is one filled with creativity and energy as being high on sativa can spark new ideas and creations.  Sativa gives you a feeling of being at ease, uplifting thoughts, increases focus, and fights depression. 

Ruderalis

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Ruderalis originated in Russia. It flowers earlier than both indica and sativa it doesn't grow as tall and it can withstand harsher climates but the THC content is extremely low. 

Hemp

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Weed isn't only for smoking it has so many different uses.  Hemp is becoming a real hit because you can use it in almost every way you use trees and come on people we need to save the trees.  Here are 7 great uses for Industrial Hemp.  The first one is clothing.  People have been using hemp in textiles dating back to 8,000 BC.  These days it is being mixed with silk for lingerie and because of its durability it is being used for jeans, shoes, and sport clothing.  

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Hemp is also highly nutritious and perfect for foods and beverages.  The whole seed is about 25% protein, its a great source for calcium and iron as well as having more omega 3  than a walnut

it's also great for brewing into beer and fermenting into wine, oh and there's hemp milk too.

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Hemp has been used for paper for at least 2,000 years.  Unfortunately because of the small number and relatively old age of processing equipment hemp paper ends up being twice as expensive as wood paper.  

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I think we need some creative engineers to design a better way to make hemp paper because hemp is a far more quickly renewable and sustainable source.

Hemp provides all kinds of great building materials.  You can make it  into insulation, and it can even be made into hempcrete a stronger lighter more sustainable version of concrete.

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Hemp can take the place of plastics.  Ford famously made a car out of hemp in the early 1940s it never went into production , but you can see a picture on the internet  of Henry Ford taking an axe to the car to prove its durability.  More recently hemp has been being used for things like shower curtain liners, cd and dvd cases all sorts of stuff

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Yup you can make bio fuel out of hemp.  Like any kind of vegetable oil you can take hemp oil and process it into biodiesel

One of the most intriguing uses for hemp is cleaning up soil contamination.  I watched a pretty great youtube video on how planting hemp around the area of fukushima could help the soil from the nuclear disaster.  http://youtu.be/FldJS-BHp7M  its worth a try!!  Yup weed is good for more reasons than one!!  

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